Interesting Facts
- There is no letter 'J' anywhere on the table
- The symbol for Mercury is Hg....letters that don't appear anywhere in its name...... it’s from hydragyrum, Latin for “water silver”. Ancient languages and mythology influenced alot of the element names.[1]
- ^ NPR (2010). Fun and Intrigue with the periodic table Retrieved from: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128588187, 29 October 2010 Information reprinted from The Disappearing Spoon with permission from Little, Brown and Co. Copyright 2010 by Sam Kean.